RFR: 8062795: (fs) Files.setPermissions requires read access when NOFOLLOW_LINKS specified [v3]

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:16:34 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>   8062795: Open the path with write access instead of checking for links
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> src/java.base/unix/classes/sun/nio/fs/UnixFileAttributeViews.java line 284:
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>> 282:                 fd = open(file, O_RDONLY, O_NOFOLLOW);
>> 283:             } catch (UnixException e1) {
>> 284:                 if (e1.errno() == EACCES) {
> 
> Maybe we should add a comment like "// retry with write access in case there is no read permission" ?

Comment added in 39b0754849d52f5f22e6cc3fb0b48605d58d7f17.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15214#discussion_r1296250021